Although existing and rising to fame 1821 years apart, the murderers of Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln shared some unique similarities. One of them grew up in Ancient Rome, while the other grew up in a time of racial segregation and new beginnings. Even though they were born into two different times and lived under different circumstances, they were similar yet very different because they both felt the leaders had too much power and conspired to kill the powerful leaders.
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger was born June 85 B.C. in Philippi, Macedonia (now Greece) to Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder and Servilla Caepionis. However, it was rumored that Julius Caesar was his father. When Brutus was only eight years-old, his father surrender to …show more content…
Being a Confederate at heart, he strongly disliked that the President wanted to abolish slavery and that he supported other abolitionists. However, he promised his mother that he would never join the Confederate Army. (Biography.com) Booth was very vocal about his opinions. He even joined a Richmond militia and was a part of their party that hung John Brown, an abolitionist. Booth was so devoted to the Confederacy, he snuck drugs that were used medically into the Confederacy, to help them win the Civil War. (Biography.com) Ironically, his brother who he had a strained relationship with, Edwin, was a part of the Union. In November of 1863, Booth acted in The Marble Heart at Ford's Theatre, this being the only time that Lincoln saw Booth perform. The next fall in 1864, Booth began to devise plans of kidnapping President Lincoln. (History.com)He gained him an entourage of co-conspirators to help him carry out these plans. They came up with numerous ideas on abducting Lincoln and what to do after that point. Unfortunately for the group, all of these plans were fails. Booth was even more determined to destroy Lincoln; he didn't care what the cost was. Booth and his group were even more upset when General Robert Lee, a Confederate general, surrender in Virginia, ending the Civil War. He and his conspirators came up with the plan to murder the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State, simultaneously. He hoped to throw the United States government into disarray.
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger was born June 85 B.C. in Philippi, Macedonia (now Greece) to Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder and Servilla Caepionis. However, it was rumored that Julius Caesar was his father. When Brutus was only eight years-old, his father surrender to …show more content…
Being a Confederate at heart, he strongly disliked that the President wanted to abolish slavery and that he supported other abolitionists. However, he promised his mother that he would never join the Confederate Army. (Biography.com) Booth was very vocal about his opinions. He even joined a Richmond militia and was a part of their party that hung John Brown, an abolitionist. Booth was so devoted to the Confederacy, he snuck drugs that were used medically into the Confederacy, to help them win the Civil War. (Biography.com) Ironically, his brother who he had a strained relationship with, Edwin, was a part of the Union. In November of 1863, Booth acted in The Marble Heart at Ford's Theatre, this being the only time that Lincoln saw Booth perform. The next fall in 1864, Booth began to devise plans of kidnapping President Lincoln. (History.com)He gained him an entourage of co-conspirators to help him carry out these plans. They came up with numerous ideas on abducting Lincoln and what to do after that point. Unfortunately for the group, all of these plans were fails. Booth was even more determined to destroy Lincoln; he didn't care what the cost was. Booth and his group were even more upset when General Robert Lee, a Confederate general, surrender in Virginia, ending the Civil War. He and his conspirators came up with the plan to murder the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State, simultaneously. He hoped to throw the United States government into disarray.